Cash and message carrier



(No Modei.) F. A. BYRAM. CASH AND MESSAGE CARRIER.

N0. 320,846. Patented June 23, 1885 N4 PETERS, FholoLilhognphur, Washinginlk D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

FRANK A. BYRAM, OF'PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. I iv CASH AND MESSAGE CARRIER.

SPECIPICATIONforming pm of Letters Patent No. 320,846, dated June 23, 1885.

Application filed April 23, 1885.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK A. BYRAM, acitizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash and Message Carriers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of carrier and supporting-wire. Fig. 2 is a plan of same. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of carrier; and Fig. 4 is a perspective detail of body, showing groove for rubber cord. 7

My invention relates to cash and message carrier systems, and has for its object to provide a simply constructed, inexpensive, and rapid carrier.

My improvement consists of a carrier in which the projecting medium is a spring that travels with the carrier.

In putting my invention into effect I provide a taut wire which forms a guide or support for the carrier. The latter consists of a block having eyes or openings for the passage of the supporting-wire,with a detachable wire basket or receptacle for the matter conveyed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A

represents a taut wire or rigid rod to be sustained at both ends. B is the carrier, designed to travel back and forth on said wire. It consists of a block or body, 0, having two eyescrews, D D, through which the wire passes, so that said block or body can be freely slid along said wire.

Instead of eyes, the block 0 may have a hole bored through it lengthwise for the passage of the wire, and if eyes be used they may be partly opened to allow the block to be put on or taken off the supporting-wire at any point between the ends of the latter.

E represents an endless elastic cord, which encircles the body or block 0, passing through the eyes of screws 6 e on the sides of the latter or through longitudinal openings in the block. This cord is of considerably greater length than the block, so as to leave a portion pendent for grasping purposes. Where it passes (No model.)

around the block it rests in an encircling groove, 0, in the latter.

F is a wire basket or equivalent receptacle, of any suitable material, detachably fastened by spring-clamps ff to the under side of the block.

In use the block. is held in one hand and the pendent portion of the cord E on the thumb of the other hand. The hands of the operator are then drawn apart so as to stretch the cord, and the block then released from the grasp. It instantly springs forward, carrying with it the cord and lifting the latter off the thumb of the operator. The power of the spring 1s such that the carrier may be shot a distance of over a hundred feet. At the terminals of its journey, or the ends of the rod or wire, there should be provided cork or other buffers, against which the carrier will strike. The basket may be readily attached before starting the carrier on its journey, and as readily detached after completion. To return the carrier, the cord 1s stretched in the opposite direction from what it was in forwarding, and then released, as already described. The groove 0 in the end of the carrier prevents the cord from strlking the buffer, and so hinders excessive rebound.

While the carrier is primarily intended to be forwarded from end to end of the rod or Wire, it may be shot from and returned to any intermediate point; and while it is intended to produce the distension of the elastic cord by holding it with one hand and drawing the carrier away in the opposite direction, a fixed or permanent hook or horn to receive the pendent end of the cord may be employed, the carrier being drawn away from this hook or horn to produce distension of the cord, and the latter slipping off said hook or horn when the carrier shoots over it.

. What I claim as my invention is as follows:

1. A carrier comprising a sliding block or body with a projecting or impelling spring which moves along with the carrier as the latter travels, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with a sliding carrier, of an endless elastic cord for impelling said carrier, substantially as shown and described.

3. A carrier consisting of a block, 0, with eye-screws D D, an elastic cord, E, and a de- In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 10 tachable basket, substantially as shown and have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of described. April, 1885.

4. The combination of a taut wire suspended by its ends, a block or body suspended FRANK A. BYRAM. thereon and having animpelling-spring which travels with said body, and a detachable WVitnesses:

ISAIAH MATLAoK,

basket or receptacle, substantially as shown JOHN W. LE MAISTRE.

and described, 

